Amy Chua

Amy Chua
Chua Speaking at Harvard in 2016
Born	(1962-10-26) October 26, 1962 (age 54) Champaign, Illinois, United States
Occupation	The John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard College (A.B.) Harvard Law School (J.D.)
Subject	Intentional relations, political science, sociology, economics, parenting
Spouse	Jed Rubenfeld
Children	Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld Louisa Chua-Rubenfeld
Website
AmyChua.com

Amy L. Chua (traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒; simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; pinyin: Cài Měi'ér; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Bí Lî, born October 26, 1962) is an American lawyer and author. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law and is noted for her parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In 2011, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, one of the Atlantic Monthly’s Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policy’s Global Thinkers.

Chua was born in Champaign, Illinois, to ethnic Chinese parents with Hoklo ancestry who emigrated from the Philippines. Her parents raised her speaking Hokkien. Her father, Leon O. Chua, is an electrical engineering and computer sciences professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His ancestral hometown is Quanzhou, Fujian. Chua's mother was born in China in 1936, before relocating to the Philippines at the age of 2. She subsequently converted to Catholicism in high school and graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, with a degree in chemical engineering, magna cum laude. Chua's parents lived in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation in World War II and were liberated by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his troops.